Medicine: Psychiatrist, Heal Thyself

Is psychiatry all that it is cracked up to be? Emphatically not, says
Montreal Psychiatrist Elliott Emanuel. "In our generation," he writes
in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, "some of the biggest names
in psychiatry are men whose scientific contributions have been
negligible, whose contact with individual patients has been minimal for
several years, and whose time is devoted to committees, journalism, and
publicity for themselves and their institutions . . . Within the
various schools of psychiatry we have much mutual backslapping and
back-scratching in spite of intense personal rivalry, while a bland and
successful façade is presented to the...